Wonderful People

Prolusion

It’s a happy day and I feel grateful. It’s a day to smile without a reason. A productive day. A day with a minor sense of achievement. A day where the music sounds nicer and cheesecake tastes better.

“Any resemblance to any person dead or living in the following essay is not a coincidence. Wonderful people do actually exist”

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People are nice.

Even the worst of them can turn someone’s day around when least expected.

I am writing this for myself and for all you people out there who pretend to be happy but when it comes down to it you’re full off cynicism, bitterness and hate. Where you want to do things to ‘get back’ at people who hurt you, or seek out revenge as a scorned lovers towards someone who cheated on you, or hold things against one another. The worst part is we don’t have feelings like these toward just anybody but towards people we have loved or love. In most cases its still love, but a bad toxic kind of love which leads to hatred and the other aforementioned feelings and qualities.

Everyone has had good and bad days and good and bad relationships. It’s quite pathetic because we remember the bad more than the good.

I believe however, that there should come a day in everyone’s lives where they get sick of the feeling and decide to make the little things count. It can be that one nice thing that can get you through the week.

It can be someone bringing you chocolate éclairs when you most need it. Or that moment when someone makes you sign a scrap of paper which you have a little piece of writing on in the hope and faith that one day you will be a world famous writer.

When you feel like its one of those crappy days some person who you only say ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ to can wall post you a link that brightens up everything.

A ‘Goodnight’ text sent from the same person everyday who you haven’t met in forever.

A note saved on a phone full of all your favorite things. Things even you forgot you liked.

Also, have you ever had a day so terrible that you need a friend to call you every few hours to check if you’re still crying or not? The calls don’t help much really, until that person calls you half asleep and tells you how wonderful you are in five sentences and hangs up. It can go a long way with someone.

How having a caramel donut brought to you at 8am? Or having a piece of cherry flavoured white chocolate change your day? Or maybe a phone call by a friend when least expected or maybe a schezwan vada-pav.

It’s that vibe you get from a friend who doesn’t understand what you love and why you love it but makes an effort anyway, or just lets you steal their rings instead.

Or when someone you properly hung out with for the first time holds their pee in just to wait to pay the bill.

Even wildly scripted letters, or badly sketched birthday cards. Having let someone experiment on your hair can benefit you a lot too. The simple joy of doing the ‘Macerena’. Oh and by the way did you know a status on Facebook about wanting to read a book, can make someone just have it delivered to you?

I would be lying if I said that it is the thought that counts. It’s not the thought, it’s the little things. These little things and many more of which I have not mentioned have gotten me through a lot, a lot being the differences I’ve had with these same people.

For all of the times we’re lost and for all of the things we’re not.

Someone is always something you aren’t and you are always something that they are not. It’s a lovely little cycle we have going.

It is the little things that go a long way with me. It makes your not so perfect picture worth looking at.

Oh, and you wonderful people out there.

You know who you are!

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